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Full instructions on how to resolve complicated cases are at Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss § Instructions for editors. Other notes: "Probably OK" words can be deleted if they are in fact OK, or just fixed if they are not OK. For HTML tags (especially in the HB+ section), see Category:Articles with HTML markup for instructions
The moss project seeks to find and remove the furry green typos that have been growing on Wikipedia articles. It uses a python script named moss and written by User:Beland to automatically find misspellings, mistakes in English grammar, violations of the Wikipedia:Manual of Style, and confusing or broken wiki markup.
See Wikipedia:Typo for information on and coordination of spellchecking work. Note that not all occurrences of these spellings will be misspellings: if they are in song titles, for instance, they must be left as the song writer intended (but it is worth checking back to sources); if they are in transliterations such as " Tao Te Ching " or in ...
It is a focused effort of the Wikipedia Typo Team. Wikipedia is an evolving resource. Even if you completely correct Wikipedia of some typo today, the same typo will creep back in with time. "Typo adoption" is a defense against that by encouraging users to periodically check Wikipedia for particular typos using special searches on their user page.
The Wicked Bible The Judas Bible in St. Mary's Church, Totnes, Devon, UK. The Wicked Bible omits the word "not" in the commandment, "thou shalt not commit adultery".. The Judas Bible is a copy of the second folio edition of the authorized version, printed by Robert Barker, printer to James VI and I, in 1613, and given to the church for the use of the Mayor of Totnes.
Wikipedia is not the place to host your blog or personal web page, or to promote yourself, your company, your band, etc. If you are here to do only one thing and that one thing is prohibited by policy, guideline, and/or consensus, then this is not the project for you.
The shortcut WP:TYPO links to this project page. Edit summaries are important and other editors value them when scanning the article history. Edit summary histories are also sometimes considered during user requests for Wikipedia adminship ; so, making valuable edit summaries is a good habit to form.
This page has copy-and-paste examples for adding words to Wiktionary when dealing with correctly-spelled words flagged by moss.. If you aren't confident in the definition of a word, you can use {{rfdef|en}} ("en" if it's an English word, otherwise the right language code).